everything but the girl

Title: The Fellowship

Fandom: Lord of the Rings

Song: "We the Fellowship" by Bob Catley

Rating: PG-13

Summary: The beginnings of the travels of the Fellowship; created as part of Sweet Charity (Spring, 2008) for eldritchhobbit.

( + Watch it here! )

You can download it from MegaUpload or go right to the vid here (I recommend clicking on "view in high quality" and waiting for the whole file to load).

Note: Working with eldreitchhobbit was a fascinating experience! She let me go off on my own in terms of the vid's structure and narative, but when I asked her which particular elements she wanted to see, she gave me a list of five or six things - and I'd already used four of them in the vid. So we were rather in synch, wheee.

In making this vid, I realised there was enough LotR material for me to do another vid in my Schoolhouse Rock parody collection - I'll be posting that later today or tomorrow, so stay tuned!

I know I'm nowhere near caught up reading the plethora of reviews and comments on my flist, and I'm already seven hours from the end of the movie, which I certainly need to see again (anyone from hp_florida interested?) but I beyond exhausted and I needed to put my thoughts down.

Oh, have I sobbed today. Look, I know I'm a sap. I cried a pint of tears in You've Got Mail when Meg Ryan's character speaks about the Shoes books, so it's almost required that I sob in RoTK. ( But... )

And I can't wait for the extended edition; I've already asked for it for our anniversary next fall.

Oh, haven't I come a long way from the girl who, almost three years ago, saw the first trailer for LOTR and thought, "Rudy? And the kid from flipper? What the hell is this? Nope, no interest."

And I'm not sure I even would've seen FOTR without all the overwhelming discussion two years ago on LJ, then in playing around with the Very Secret Diaries, and hearing from those of <"http://www.livejournal.com/~heidi8/friends"> you who are longtime fans of the books. Of course, I'll make another try on them again, and will try not to get hung up by the Really Long Delay in Frodo and Sam's 'flight' from the Shire ("oh no! They're after us! Let's flee! But only after we get a good price for the olde homestead!").

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Anyhow, I didn't only turn into a gibbering wreck at the film.

Tonight, Aaron and I saw Simon & Garfunkle (with the Everly Brothers) live in concert. Seeing art & paul together is something I never thought I would manage, but then again, I once thought that about Paul McCartney, and 18 months ago, I did.

And I think seven songs made me cry - the boxer, the only living boy in new york, sounds of silence (and copperbadge, I tried to do a phone post for you during the song but it didn't work, wah!), I am a Rock, All I Have To Do Is Dream, and, strangely enough, Mrs Robinson and Feeling Groovy. Not scarborough fair; that was Aaron, who, btw, pointed out that had he realised that I'd clutch at his arm and weep into his shoulder all day, he'd've not worn a brand new blazer (it was vaguely cold (47 degrees!) tonight.

Amazing show, and I just wish I had the time to see the film & go to their concert (in broward country) again tomorrow night.

But I'm afraid I'm old and don't have the energy to do this every night, so I'll just cherish the memories of today. And get caught up on LJ tomorrow...